swear not to be concubine

Chapter 101

Jian Yan was walking back and forth in the private room upstairs with her arms folded, constantly trying to analyze her current situation.

It's just that her heart was beating like a drum, and her underwear was soaked in cold sweat.A pair of arms also felt limp, and there was no feeling at all when pinching her hands, how could she calm down and analyze her current situation?But even so, she kept admonishing herself, to be calm, to be calm, there is always a way, there must be a way.

After reluctantly gathering her mind, she stood still in place and looked around cautiously.

The doors and windows are closed.And from the paper fan, you can see that there are two stout servants standing there guarding outside.The tall figures of the two of them are reflected on the white paper, one left and one right, which makes people feel extremely depressing.

As for the door, it must have been locked from the outside.When Zhou Yingying left, she had personally heard Zhou Yingying ordering the servants to lock the door outside, and then she heard the sound of the lock being clicked very clearly.

It seemed that she had no hope of escaping through the door.

So Jian Yan turned her head to look at the window, then she walked over quickly, stretched out her hand and pushed the window open.Immediately, a gust of cold wind rushed in, blowing on his face, causing pain like a steel knife scraping flesh.

But she didn't care so much anymore, she just cautiously leaned over and looked out.

Then she despaired.

There are also a few boys guarding outside.

Although they were just standing at the door, they would definitely notice any movement here.And what about Bai Wei?Even if she can escape by jumping off the second floor, what will Bai Wei do?Zhou Yingying's words before leaving were definitely not just to intimidate her.

Jian Yan slowly sat down on the chair by the window, she only blamed herself in her heart, why did she come to Zhou Yingying's appointment today?If you don't come, how can such a thing happen?

Now the whole situation is a situation where man is the knife and I am the fish.

However, a glimmer of hope suddenly rose in her heart.

That's right, Qin Yan was in the lobby downstairs. After Zhou Yingying went down, he didn't see him going down together, so he would definitely feel suspicious in his heart, and he would definitely come up to rescue her at that time.

It's just that as the time passed by every minute and every second, Qin Yan still didn't come up, and her only glimmer of hope was slowly shattered.

She smiled helplessly, there are so many servants and servants inside and outside the Zuiyue building, even if Qin Yan wanted to come up to save her, so what?There is more than enough heart but not enough strength.And since Zhou Yuan was letting her and Qin Yan come here today, he must have made all the preparations, how could he let Qin Yan ruin his good deed?Maybe Qin Yan is now controlled by them just like Bai Wei.

Jian Yan suddenly felt ashamed.

It seems that now she can only wait in this room for Zhou Yuanzheng to come after he has recovered his value, and then see what he wants to say to her after taking so much trouble to call her to this Zuiyue Tower today.

But she could still vaguely guess something in her heart.

It must be related to Mei Niang.I just don't know who this Mei Niang is?Is it life or death now?
Jian Yan let out a long sigh, crossed her knees around her chest, and turned to look out the window.

The north wind was blowing harder and harder.Blowing on the face, it was like scraping off a layer of flesh and blood.Although there was a round of sun hanging in the sky, the temperature of the sun seemed to be blown away by the bitter north wind, and it looked much colder and colder than usual.

So when Zhou Yuanzheng came in, what he saw was Jian Yan standing in front of the window with her back turned to him.

The double-breasted long jacket with honey-colored gold-spread satin, and the horse-face skirt embroidered with green onion and folded branches of peonies, even though the winter clothes are thicker, her back is still slender and slim.

Jian Yan turned her head when she heard the voice, and saw at a glance that Zhou Yuan was wearing a sapphire blue, dark purple cloud-patterned round-neck brocade robe, and a stone-blue sable crane cloak on the outside.

On the contrary, they have already changed their official uniforms and put on regular uniforms.

Jian Yan sneered in her heart, but still bent her knees to bless him with a gentle and supple face, and said with lowered eyebrows and narrowed eyes: "Little girl Jian Yan, I have met Master Zhou."

Zhou Yuanzheng did not make a sound.He just looked at Jian Yan with a good eye.

With eyebrows containing distant mountains, eyes frowning with autumn water, delicate and quiet, this is clearly Mei Niang.

Jian Yan saw that he was silent, so she spoke again: "I don't know why Mr. Zhou called the little girl over today to ask for advice?"

He refused to mention the fact that he was tricked into coming here today, and then it was equivalent to being placed under house arrest in this room.

It would be of no benefit to her if she broke skin with Zhou Yuanzheng as soon as she came up.Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, we can only show weakness for the time being, and then slowly talk, and then wait for the opportunity to move.

Zhou Yuanzheng didn't answer, he just walked to the table and sat down, then pointed to the armchair beside him, motioning for Jian Yan: "Come and sit."

Jian Yan's mind turned quickly, and then she walked to the table and sat down.

She didn't dare to come up now and directly disobeyed Zhou Yuanzheng's words, otherwise it would be bad if it made him go crazy.But if she listened to his words and sat directly on the chair next to him, she really felt panicked, so in the end she took a compromise.

Although she sat at the table, she didn't sit on the chair next to Zhou Yuanzheng, but just picked the chair that was relatively farthest from him and sat down on the chair directly opposite him.

Zhou Yuanzheng didn't force it for a while, and let her sit opposite him.

This also happened to be convenient for him to look at her carefully.

On her head was a hairpin of magnolia and red coral, and emerald pearl flowers in gold silk inlaid with precious stones.There is a small emerald green phoenix hairpin on the temple, and thin pearl beads hang down from the phoenix mouth.On the small and exquisite earlobe is a pair of blue gourd-shaped earrings, but whenever she moves occasionally, the earrings will gently swing back and forth, reflecting her snow-like skin more and more.

Zhou Yuan was looking greedily at every inch of her skin that was exposed outside the clothes.

And although Jian Yan was lowering her eyes at the moment, only looking at the round rosewood table in front of her, surrounded by big red gold and precious flowers, she could still feel that Zhou Yuanzheng's eyes were on her.

Even though she didn't see it with her own eyes, if Zhou Yuanzheng's gaze had any substance, wherever it went, it still made her feel extremely uncomfortable and disgusted.

The hands that were clasped on the lap before were clenched even more tightly.She was thinking about how to divert Zhou Yuanzheng's attention.

After a while, she raised her head slightly, with an impeccable and decent smile on her face, and asked warmly: "I remember the last time Master Zhou called me Niang when he saw the little girl, the little girl dared to think about it." May I ask Mr. Zhou, who is this Mei Niang?"

Everything started because of Mei Niang.Then, when she mentioned Mei Niang, Zhou Yuanzheng's attention should be diverted, right?And she can just wait for the opportunity to use Zhou Yuanzheng's words to find out who this Mei Niang is, and what kind of relationship Zhou Yuanzheng has with Mei Niang, and then decide what she should do.

And sure enough, as soon as Jian Yan mentioned Mei Niang, Zhou Yuanzheng's face was stunned for a moment, and his eyes no longer focused on her as before, but turned to look at the Hanmei Ao beside him. Snow screen.

"Mei Niang," he murmured, "Mei Niang is the person I love the most in my life."

Jian Yan's heart sank slightly.

This is the worst case scenario.

If Mei Niang was just his daughter who passed away unfortunately, or a female family member with some blood relationship, or even his mother, then Zhou Yuanzheng would only feel kind to her when he saw her, and would not think of anything else.But this Mei Niang is his lover, and she is probably already dead, so he looks like Mei Niang, so he is obviously looking for death.

So after thinking about it for a while, Jian Yan continued to ask Zhou Yuanzheng's words.

"Then, is this Mei Niang a very gentle and beautiful woman? How did Lord Zhou and Mei Niang get acquainted in the first place?"

She felt that she wanted to be a confidant sister now, guiding Zhou Yuanzheng to recall his past, and then clearly understood one thing, his Mei Niang was dead, and she was just Jian Yan It's not Mei Niang.

Zhou Yuanzheng thought about Mei Niang and rarely talked about it with others.This kind of knot has been stuffed in my heart but I can't talk to others. After a long time, the knot in my heart has long become a huge cancer.But now Jian Yan asked, and she was born exactly like Mei Niang, so Zhou Yuanzheng was also willing to talk to her.

So he slowly talked about how he and Meiniang met in the nunnery at the beginning, how they kept singing poems and letters, and how Meiniang died after her father found out. Class words.It's just that he concealed how Meiniang's father humiliated him when he went to propose marriage, how he ran away overnight when the incident was exposed, and how he treated Meiniang's family after he became rich.

When Jian Yan heard Zhou Yuanzheng finished speaking, her heart sank even more.

The most unforgettable thing in the world is not having it and having lost it, but this Mei Niang has both.

The feeling of regret and depression that one cannot get what one asks for is always caused by the best thoughts. I am afraid that Mei Niang has long been an obsession for Zhou Yuanzheng.In fact, he may not really love Mei Niang in his heart. After all, seriously speaking, the two of them only met once in the nunnery that day. It's all about harmony.And as far as she knew, Zhou Yuanzheng also had countless wives and concubines, but in these years he kept hypnotizing how infatuated he was, even though Mei Niang had died for so many years, he still couldn't forget her.

It's perverted enough.

Jian Yan felt that her situation today was really terrible.

Mei Niang is a beautiful and flawless dream of Zhou Yuanzheng.For him who has a deep obsession, the once unobtainable and lost person, but now there is a person who looks exactly like her standing in front of him, how can he let go.I'm afraid he has already regarded her as Mei Niang's substitute in his heart, right?
Jian Yan only felt that her heart was in a mess, and her mind was even more chaotic.

She had no idea what she should do now.

Bai Wei and Qin Yan were still in their hands, and the Zuiyue Building was full of Zhou Yuanzheng's people, how could she escape?

How will Zhou Yuanzheng arrange her next week?

Then she suddenly remembered something that April told her two days ago.

On that day, April said that when she was talking to Xu Miaoning's maid, Qingya, on the promenade in the Lotus Fragrance Courtyard, she saw a well-dressed maid and two maids come out of Mrs. Jian's room, and It was Mrs. Jane's mother Shen who sent these three people out in person.At that time, she quietly looked at the servant woman, and seeing that she was not from the Xu family, she was still puzzled, so she told herself when she came back.But when I heard it, I didn't take it seriously.But thinking about it now, when she went to bid farewell to Mrs. Jian this morning and said that she was coming to Zhou Yingying's appointment, Mrs. Jian was uncharacteristically affectionate to her, and even held her hand, feeling like shaking It's been so many years, and you are so old, and you said how much your brother loves you, and when he came back from the Imperial College last time, he specially brought her something delicious and fun, Tell the two of them to be harmonious as brothers and sisters, to help each other and so on.At that time, all she heard was goosebumps all over her body, and she didn't know what kind of madness Mrs. Jane was suddenly having.But thinking about it now...

Jian Yan only felt that her heart was like an ice cellar, and she couldn't even jump.

This clearly means that Zhou Yuanzheng and Mrs. Jian have reached some kind of agreement secretly.So Mrs. Jian knew that Zhou Yuan was going to see her today?

So what kind of agreement did Zhou Yuanzheng reach with Mrs. Jane?Let her be Zhou Yuanzheng's concubine?Or is it just an outside room?If she came out today, Mrs. Jian didn't even plan that she would go back, but let Zhou Yuanzheng take her away.

For a moment, Jian Yan's whole body couldn't stop shaking like a sieve.

Was she sold so neatly by Mrs. Jane?What will she do next?Right now, Zuiyue upstairs is full of Zhou Yuanzheng's people. If Zhou Yuanzheng took her away and put her somewhere later, wouldn't it be even more difficult for her to fly in the future?
His hands were full of cold sweat.She desperately told herself to be calm, to be calm.There is no unparalleled road, and there must be a solution.

But what else could be done?

Suddenly, she heard the sound of Suo Suo's clothes rubbing against each other, and from the corner of her eyes, she saw a corner of a stone blue crane cloak hanging beside her.

Zhou Yuan stood up from the chair opposite, and then sat down in a chair next to her.

Jian Yan lowered her head and could see his hands.

After all, he is in his fifties, and no matter how well maintained he is, no matter how fair he looks, he is as skinny as ginger.What's more, the little fingers of his hands had nails about two or three inches long. Seeing this, Jian Yan felt extremely disgusted.

And the right hand in these two hands is reaching out now, it seems that they want to hold her hand.

Jian Yan was shocked, and then she stood up suddenly, and took a few big steps back, until her body was against the wall, and there was no way to retreat.

Behind her is the window.

The sill window of the H-shaped lantern brocade center was pushed half open by her just now.A wind blew in from the outside, and the pearl tassels on her phoenix hairpin and the jade gourd earlobes on her earlobes trembled uncontrollably.

Zhou Yuanzheng was only taken aback by her sudden movement, and his outstretched right hand froze in mid-air.

However, after he reacted, he slowly withdrew his right hand and placed it on his knee.

Now that Jian Yan has entered the Zuiyue Tower, she is already under his control.She is absolutely inescapable, he has plenty of time to spend time with her.

So he said slowly: "I have already set up a courtyard in this capital, with all the maids and servants. You will live there from now on, and I will visit you when I have free time. I have agreed with you on this matter." Your mother said it, and she agreed."

Heh, Jian Yan smiled sadly in her heart, Mrs. Jian is definitely not soft on selling her.

"But I didn't agree to this matter." She looked at Zhou Yuanzheng and said coldly.

Zhou Yuanzheng glanced at her with some surprise.

Does such a thing have to go through her promise?She was nothing more than a merchant's daughter.He is the chief assistant with all the power in the government and the public. Could it be possible that he has wronged her by letting her be his concubine?

For the sake of how much she looks like Mei Niang, Zhou Yuanzheng is still somewhat patient with her now.So he said in a gentle voice: "If you follow me, I will naturally pamper you. As long as you can say anything about everything in this world, I will naturally be found and placed in front of you , will never let you suffer any grievances."

Jian Yan's answer was full of sarcasm and disdain.

After all, Zhou Yuanzheng had been in a high position for a long time, and he had only been flattered by others before, and it was rare for him to persuade him so warmly, but the other party was still full of mockery and disdain.

So his patience just now was exhausted immediately, and his face sank.

"Jian Yan, you don't want to toast or eat fine wine. I only tolerate you because you look like Mei Niang."

Seeing that Jian Yan put her hands back on the window sill, and moved her body towards the window, he sat in the chair without moving, but said: "Could it be that you are thinking of jumping, and then Escape? This is really stupid. Not to mention that my people are guarding below, how can you, a weak woman, escape. Just say that you really escaped, but your mother cannot escape It fell into my hands, what do you think will happen to her?"

Is he trying to use Mrs. Jane to threaten her?
Jian Yan laughed.Then he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then how are you going to kill her? A piece of white silk? A cup of poisoned wine? Shentan Xiao's head? Or the troublesome death by a thousand knives? Which death did you choose for her?" I don't even have an opinion."

Zhou Yuanzheng's face was completely gloomy now.

He didn't expect that it would be ineffective to threaten Jian Yan with Mrs. Jian.But he was more willing to believe that Jian Yan actually cared in her heart, but she just pretended not to care.

Who would not care about his mother's life or death?

"Then you don't care about your own life or death?" Zhou Yuan's face was sinking like water, and his voice was as cold and dark as if it came from an abyss. "You can think about the fate of disobeying me."

The wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, and it kept pouring into the house from the half-open window.

Jian Yan was standing on this vent, and the biting north wind was blowing on her body, bringing a biting chill.

At the moment of life and death, she calmed down instead.

Since crossing over, this journey has been so difficult.At that time, she always thought that as long as she kept forbearing, kept working hard, and found an opportunity to get out of the prison, she would always find a relatively free place in this era, allowing her to spend her life peacefully.Later, she fell in love with Xu Zhongxuan, and finally made up her mind in the past few days. In the future, she would not have to think about how to escape all day long, and it would be good to live with him for the rest of her life with peace of mind.But I didn't expect that these were just extravagant hopes.

That being the case, why let the old man in front of him treat her as someone else's substitute, endure his sticky and disgusting eyes every day, and live in humiliation?

She would rather be a piece of jade than a tile.

After making up her mind, she felt that all the tense nerves were relieved.

So she raised her head and smiled at Zhou Yuanzheng: "Of course I want to live a good life. But the premise is that I have to live with dignity. Otherwise, I would rather die."

After finishing speaking, she raised her hand and pulled out the magnolia red coral hairpin she was wearing on her head, and pressed the pointed end straight to her throat.

(End of this chapter)